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Friday, February 23, 2007 7:49 AM

Some of the new toys I have been playing with...

This post is NOT CRM related at all. Sorry. But here are some cool tools I have been playing with recently that I recommend you check out. :-) Windows Live Search Mobile. This app is WAY cool. Saves my bacon at least once a day. I wish it also did regular
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Wednesday, February 21, 2007 11:39 PM

The CIO Weblog: salesforce.com will be acquired in 2007 - IDC

Interesting article, that points to a post from IDC. 2007 will be a year of intense "hyperdisruption" in the IT industry, with major structural changes taking place along different industry vectors at once — all interacting with each other and, more important,
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Tuesday, February 20, 2007 7:00 AM

Getting your hands on Virtual PC 2007

I know... It seems like all of this week's posts are about VPC... Well I have been doing a bunch of work with VPC recently, so yeah, there are going to be some Virtual PC posts for the next couple of weeks. :-) If you are running Vista, you will notice
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Monday, February 19, 2007 7:28 AM

Need to Speed up your VPC?

So we just went through a normal hardware refresh and as a result, I am the proud owner of two new HP nc8430 machines. One of the coolest features that these machines have is a built in SD Card Reader. With that SC Card Reader and a 4 GB SD Card, I have
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Friday, February 16, 2007 4:47 PM

VPC Workshop - Reston and Atlanta

This past week there was a VPC workshop for partners in Atlanta and next week there is one in Reston. The one in Atlanta was done by Susan Sauls (who I need to get an intro blog post up on....) and Todd Baana. (Todd is the first guy in the green shirt
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Thursday, February 15, 2007 7:00 AM

Creating a Unique Number in Microsoft CRM

The SDK has an example that shows you using a Post Call Out you to create a unique identifier for each new contact record. So the GUID can be replaced with a number that is a little more user friendly. :-) This also needed to work in a hosted environment
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Wednesday, February 14, 2007 1:52 PM

Book for Customization of Microsoft CRM - JavaScript Bible

As many of you know, I am not the sharpest tool in the shed. I always need help when working on my scripts. Date fields seem to kick me down every day. I can never seem to remember all of the ways I can get a date to become a month, year, minute, etc...
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:28 PM

Microsoft CRM V3c Terminal Server Scripts Available

Michael Lu announced over on the CRM team blog that the new Terminal Server Scripts are available. These new terminal server scripts provide support for the CRM V3C Outlook Client’s new custom MAPI store. As before, these scripts are only supported on
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Thursday, February 08, 2007 1:09 PM

Last chance for customers to save $100 when registering for Convergence 2007

Remind your customers that early-registration pricing for Convergence 2007 ends soon. Register by February 9, 2007 to save US$100 on registration fees. Have them use your Partner Sponsorship Identification number when registering so they can have a chance
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Sunday, February 04, 2007 4:34 PM

RSS in Microsoft CRM's Demo Environment

I am in Seattle this week learning the latest and greatest around the technical stuff @ Microsoft. It is refreshing to be able to devote a week to just forgetting about partners and customers and everybody and focusing on learning some new things. :-)
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